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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Ability to rerun failed reports/jobs/agents in batch, from IBM Cognos Administration -> Past Activities screen

Why is it useful? In a busy production cognos analytics environments, when an unplanned outage occur, it's common to see multiple report/agent/job failures. Administrators need to go to "view run history", and rerun failed requests. It is very tim...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

JobScheduler - Option Daylight saving time switch

Dear all, Batchjobs are running with unix time. It would be great to have an option to turn off / on daylight switching time. (connection to unix time is correct, but any export to a human user is expected at the same time per day).
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Not under consideration

Request for an Informix CSDK port for MAC OS M1 processor

Is Informix CSDK 4.1x or 4.5x ported for MAC OS M1 processor? Seems like the last one available is x86_64 4.10 and I saw someone asking for a port in Dec 2021 with no response. Maybe there are some specific steps to run as a workaround using the e...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 1 Not under consideration

Allow Informix to kill sessions not only limited by session-id

Informix should be able to kill sessions not only limited by session-id:For example: If a admin should kill sessions from a specific user or host a script is needed. So it would be helpfull if onmode -z would accept following syntax for example:$ ...
almost 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

View report status when Scheduling capability turned off

Client has scheduling capability disabled for dev environment, but users testing reports need to see what reports they are running in the background and the status of those runs.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Include "Always create extended data items" option in CA11

In Cognos 10.2.2 - When authoring report based on TM1/Planning Analytics Cube – we have the "Extended Data Item" option disabled in the Report Studio options (Tools menu) so our users are able to edit data item items which you drag into new report...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Informix ER: Increase maximum allowed replicates

Our customer uses Enterprise Replication with Informix Server, spanning 530 databases, within 60 instances. We use 11.70 GE. We have hit the maximum limitation of 32746 replicates in the ER domain and it's not enough. We even had to decrease count...
over 8 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Combination Chart of Area and Line

Graphs over time which are displayed as area graphs, also require lines included. We are trying to put these together but are unable to find a chart type which can accommodate this in PAW v59. As an example we need to see sales by product over tim...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Auto fit of PAW objects

Auto fit of the view of PAW objects- charts, cubes doesn't work.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Alternate Sort Selection in Dashboards

We need the ability to establish alternative sort criteria in Dashboards. The primary use case for this would be for sorting based on a timestamp. For example, a chart may use "YYYY-Month" as the X-axis but without the ability to perform an altern...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard 0 Not under consideration